Letter Writing Tips from CAMERA.ORG Respond while the issue is still fresh in the minds of the journalists and their audience. Try to send your

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Media Consent Policy Throughout the year, New South Wales Board of Jewish Education (BJE) has the opportunity to celebrate student achievements and activities in BJE

MEM, the Hebrew letter that equals the number forty, has an open and a closed form. The open MEM appears anywhere but at the end

A mezuzah has two parts: a parchment scroll on which specified Biblical verses are hand-written, and a protective case for the scroll. The mezuzah derives

The ‘Midrash’ is a generic term for a group of approximately 60 collections of rabbinic commentaries, stories, metaphors and ethical essays arranged around the books

Milkshake Madness is our crowd favourite meetup event for High School students. They meet at Milkshake Madness to hang out with other Jewish students from

Miriam appears in the Book of Exodus, which chronicles the time of Jewish slavery in Egypt. Her name means ‘bitter sea’. Miriam was the sister

At Mount Sinai the Jewish people received the Written Torah and the Oral Torah. The Oral Torah was the oral explanation of how the (rather

The English translation of the word mitzvot (the plural of the word mitzvah) is ‘commandments’. Judaism teaches that God revealed His will in the Torah

What are Mitzvot? The word ‘mitzvah’ means ‘commandment’ or ‘rule’. Rules are like traffic lights – they make life easier for people to live. Mitzvot

This section of our website contains pages, or links to pages, of relevance to students of NSW Modern History syllabus which is studied in Years